TheUniversity Commencement of Pennsylvania Ceremony Two Hundred Thirty-Eighth Commencement Franklin Music The First United States Army Band David A. Ratliff, Conductor and Commander Student Procession Procession of the Class of 1969 Procession of the Class of 1944 Procession of Alumni Class Representatives Academic Procession Opening Proclamation Alvin V. Shoemaker, Chairman of the Trustees Invocation Stanley E. Johnson, Chaplain The National Anthem Greetings Claire M. Fagin, Interim President Presentation of the Classes Musical Interlude The University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Bruce Montgomery, Director Remarks Academic Honors Marvin Lazerson, Interim Provost Greetings Gerald J. Porter, Immediate Past Chair, Faculty Senate Conferral of Honorary Degrees The President Gloria Twine Chisum (Ph.D. ‘60) .. Doctor of Laws Vice Chair, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Chair, Commission on Strengthening the University Community Henry G. Cisneros .. Doctor of Laws United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mary Ellen Mark (B.F.A. ‘62, M.A. Comm. ‘64) .. Doctor of Fine Arts Photographer Denise Scott Brown (M.C.P. ‘60, M. Arch. ‘65) .. Doctor of Fine Arts Architect, Urban Planner and Principal Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates Samuel O. Thier .. Doctor of Science President, Brandeis University Former Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Phillip Vallentine Tobias .. Doctor of Science Professor Emeritus of Anatomy and Human Biology and Director, Palaeo-anthropology Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania 4 Presentation of the University of Pennsylvania Medal for Distinguished Achievement to the American Philosophical Society The President Introduction of the Commencement Speaker The Provost Commencement Address The Honorable Henry G. Cisneros United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Academic Festive Anthem Words by Benjamin Franklin Music by Bruce Montgomery The Commencement Chorus and First Army Band Bruce Montgomery, Conductor Conferral of Degrees in Course The President Candidates are presented by the Deans and the Vice Provost Closing Remarks The President The Red and Blue (By William J. Goeckel, Class of 1896 and Harry E. Westervelt, Class of 1898) Come all ye loyal classmates now, in hall and campus through, Lift up your hearts and voices for the royal Red and Blue. Fair Harvard has her crimson, old Yale her colors too, But for dear Pennsylvania we wear the Red and Blue. Hurrah! Hurrah! Pennsylvania! Hurrah for the Red and the Blue: Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah for the Red and Blue. Benediction The Chaplain Recessional The audience is requested to stand during the Academic Procession, the Invocation, the singing of the National Anthem and the Red and Blue, and the Benediction, and to remain in place until the Academic Procession has left the field. .